Please pray for wisdom, discernment and open doors as I look for bridges to love, serve, and build friendships with Saharawi people in Jerez.
Praise God for my visit with a Saharawi friend, S. She told me that she is interested in learning English and will talk to her friends to see if there are others who would like to learn.
Pray for a disciple making movement among the Saharawi that spreads farther and faster than anyone could ask or imagine (Eph 3:20).

A Syrian young man and I have been meeting and texting back and forth for a while. This week, he told me his refugee mom in Lebanon had just asked about me. He’s told me that his deceased Orthodox father had a love for Bible study with Syrian evangelicals. Pray this Portland son would carry on his dad’s love for God’s Word!

Pray for more students to join the Noel ESL classes. Pray for good interaction with students and opportunities to talk about spiritual things. We are asking for receptive and soft hearts to listen and not just hear the Gospel news.

Our Congolese refugees are getting settled here in the Charleston, SC area.  We are able to take the Congolese refugees to church so pray their hearts will be open. God is giving opportunities to share our faith.

Pray for deepened friendships and communication with our 3 imams with whom we interact.
Pray for renewed relationships with the ladies’ side of the ministry, Sarah’s Daughters. The imam’s wife has withdrawn a bit. Ask the Lord to bring women to us with open hearts.

Refugees in the Croydon area, a mixture of UPG’s including people from Sudan, the Horn,
Afghanistan, Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq.
This month, the Croydon Refugee Day Centre is starting a new ‘Wednesday Welcome’ drop in session which will focus on relationships and social needs. Please pray for the Lord to draw many refugees to the center with open hearts to hear the gospel.

Please pray for fruitful conversations as we take a group of internationals to the farm in Trout Lake, WA on Saturday. Also pray that God will be preparing the hearts of our students to hear the Good News this new term.

Please pray for our family Picnic on 8/28. We usually have around 200 at this event. Please pray for clear gospel conversations and for details to come together.
Please pray for boldness to proclaim the Word in all our summer get togethers!

* Please pray for a gathering for African clients of the Pregnancy resource Center and the local prayer team on August 26 at my house. Pray that many Africans come and enjoy the time together. Pray that the first gathering opens doors for further gatherings like it. Pray for friendships to begin that afternoon.
* Please pray for each member of the prayer team to meet Africans as we go about our days in the south Atlanta area, that the Lord would bring them across our paths and into our lives. Pray for us to cultivate friendships with them, and that our lives will be woven together.
* Please pray that many Africans will sign up to attend ESL classes this fall.
* Please pray for the Holy Spirit to open doors and give us conversations with people about the Bible, about Jesus and the gospel. Pray that through these friendships people will begin to meet to read the Word of God together on a regular basis.

Pray for many new students to enroll in Noel for the Fall semester ESL classes. Pray for the ESL staff working together in Noel. All of us have a Kingdom focus for the community.
Our Truck Driver friend from Noel has moved to Louisville, KY. We are trying to connect him to friends in Louisville. Pray that his transition to Louisville will present more opportunities for him to hear the Gospel.

Praise for occasional WhatsApp connections with island friends in Marseille. Pray for B, currently in the islands until September to meet bold sisters/brothers who will proclaim truth to her and other islanders on vacation. Pray for a receptive and soft heart.

* Praise God for the international ladies and families (60+) who have participated in activities  we have organized this past year. Pray the Holy Spirit will testify to their hearts to the truth of the gospel message they have heard.
* Join us in asking God to provide His direction for English classes, Sewing, and Homework club activities in the new academic year starting in September. Currently we have no volunteers to help with pre-schoolers who know no English and have experienced trauma.
* We also need more volunteers before we can restart Homework club for international students (ages 11-18) in the Som neighborhood. Pray for students to be able to hear the gospel!

* Please pray for R., A., and K. who have shown great interest in Jesus through our Bible studies, but who are still holding on to Islam. Please pray that all they have learned through the gospels would penetrate their hearts and that the HS would convict them and bring them to repentance.
* Please pray for L. and M. (an Algerian mother and daughter), and their whole family. The kids come to our Impact Kids program, and recently the two of them took home French New Testaments. Please pray that they would begin to read, and that we would be able to follow up soon.
* Please pray for the North African believers at our church that they would continue to grow in their love of Jesus and their love of his church- particularly that they would become more involved!

Our main prayer request is for the fruitful success of our outreach week on the estate in the East Midlands. We have an AIM short term team of 9 combined with over 20 volunteers from the church and the surrounding area. We are running a holiday club in the afternoons, followed by outreach in the late afternoon/evenings. Please pray for good conversations and gospel opportunities.

* The annual International Student camping trip starts today thru the 9th. Pray for the students and Americans who will be hiking and enjoying God’s creation together. Pray the students hear and receive the gospel message as it is shared through evening storytelling.
* Pray for the new students arriving on campus. New student orientation is August 15. Pray for connections for our team as they reach out to help the new international students get settled.

I teach a Christianity Explored class to newer MBB from Iran. Recently, a married couple that just arrived to Canada less than a month ago from Iran, Med* & Mel* have been receptive to the Gospel and have attended 2 classes so far. Please pray for Med & Mel’s salvation, as well as wisdom in sharing, and discipleship growth in the other students to reach to their families and friends.

Pray for our Muslim pharmacist. He gave me his email to get together outside of work to discuss spiritual things and to spend time as friends! Praise God! Please pray that I would be bold and compassionate and the Lord would open his heart.

* Continue to pray for my friend from West Africa. She likes to visit in our home and ask great questions about life and what we believe as Christians. She is also worshiping with our local multi-lingual church which her young son thoroughly enjoys.
* Pray for our Moroccan and Afghan students who took Bibles and Biblical literature from our Bible boxes this past term. Pray for them to see the truth of the Jesus from Genesis to Revelation. Pray as English Lessons using the New Testament are developed and finalized for this next year. Pray that our students would continue to engage with the Bible stories from the New Testament with the same interest as they did this past year with the Old Testament.

It is some time since we saw our young friends Emile and Emily. He is returning to the islands during the summer break – pray that they will remain faithful to one another during the time apart. Pray for their son, Lee, who is headstrong and difficult. It will not be easy for Emily to care for him during Emile’s absence. Most of her family are also away in the coming weeks. We hope to see her – pray that she will be willing to discuss spiritual things with us.

Pray for our outreach week at the end of July. We have a team of 12 coming from AIM short term and we hope to have many volunteers from the local church and other surrounding churches. Please pray for the ongoing preparation and for fruitful opportunities to share the gospel. Please pray for the follow up to this week, including gathering contacts, making friendships and possibly inviting people to an Al Massira course.

Children’s Bible camp ministry is beginning!  Please pray that the Holy Spirit would move in parents and youth to prepare hearts and fill all 7 camps.

Our newest MAC member, M.M., leads a thriving ballet and dance school in Lethbridge, Alberta. Through the month of July she will be leading three 1-week dance camps especially for immigrant children. Please pray that Proclamation Dance Camp will open many doors to New Canadian kids and their families!

Continue to pray for our truck driver friend, MoH, that he will hear the Gospel while he is driving across the country. Praise for the continued contact with him and his willingness to see us.

So grateful to God for the 30+ ladies who came to the final English and Sewing day presentations with Biblical messages. Please pray that they will remember these Gospel conversations and that their hearts would be hungry for the Truth.

Please pray for my friend from West Africa. She has received a Bible and often asks very good questions. This past Sunday, without prompting, she drove herself and children to church without us and worshipped with other brothers and sisters from West Africa. Please pray that the veil of islam from her family heritage be lifted and she will see “God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” 2 Cor. 4:6

Pray with us for the Lord to bring seeking African immigrants to each one on our team. Pray for friendships, opportunities to share the gospel, and churches to welcome them.

Two of my language students are about to finish our Bible storying series. Please pray that God will move in their hearts as the reflect back on the stories we have covered.

We have an outreach week July 11-15, with a youth group from Iowa. We will have a 3 day kids camp (grades 2-6) and a 1 day 3v3 soccer tournament (grades 6-12). May God bring the kids to hear the Word of God and see the love of Christ!

Pray for participants for our community garden and summer English classes. Pray for the Lord to us seeking friends and students.

Praise for one young Somali believer who has been going to church with me for the last few months. Pray for unity within his family, and for those members who have drifted from the faith to repent.

Pray for connections with International Students during July. May each student hear the gospel and desire to follow Jesus. Pray for more workers to join our team. Pray for boldness and clarity when these interactions take place.

My best African friend’s family will move to Canada early July. May God guide them and continue to help them preach the gospel among the unreached people groups.

Thank God for NS, African M’s family, finding a flat to live in. Our relationship has grown while going around looking at different flats. Pray for continued relationship and open hearts to the gospel.

S’s 16-year-old son almost lost his legs during an accident and now can walk a little bit with crutches. Pray he will know Jesus and give him hope.

Praise: Lots of good opportunities for conversation with parents and kids around the bike ministry lately.

Parents and older teens interested in faith around the campfires in our back yard.
One young Somali believer coming to church with me regularly.

Pray for an Afghan man I’m tutoring in English. Pray for our relationship and for the Lord to open his heart to healing and hope.

We would appreciate your prayers for the final day of class on June 27th for both English and Sewing classes. We will have a party and presentation of a Bible story.Pray for good engagement and the presence of the Holy Spirit.

A month ago a new church based Welcome Team was assigned to an Afghan family who had lived in a military base for 4 months, and a Detroit hotel for an additional 4 months. We were able to greet them with a house full of furniture donated by various church members each with a great story of God’s provision. After the family had been in the house a couple weeks, a Nigerian/Jamaican couple on the Welcome Team invited them to their local Nigerian church for a Sunday service. They were very warmly welcomed and even brought on stage, which they loved. In fact they loved it so much they went back a 2nd time.

May God continue to use this welcome team and Nigerian church to penetrate hearts for the gospel!

Ask the Lord to bless my children’s bike ministry. I need helpers. Pray for the children to listen well and respond to the teaching. May the Lord open their hearts to the good news.

Pray for connections with people from the Islands, that their hearts would be stirred up from past conversations regarding the Gospel News and they would long to hear more.

Our Chinese class members are mostly West African Muslims. I always share God’s words with them. May His words dwell in their hearts. Pray that they would understand the Truth about Jesus and bow their knees to Him.

The International Student Ministry is gearing up for summer activities. Pray that with each encounter with the students will be seasoned with the gospel. Pray for unity in all the planning and good attendance to the activities planned. Pray that hearts would be soften to be receptive to the Gospel.

Praise God for new opportunities with a community garden and a summer ESL program at our new “Welcome House”. The tools are in place, may God use these to make many connections in the community so many can regularly see and hear the good news of Jesus.
July 12-15 we will re-launch kids camp (grades 2-6), which has not happened since pre-covid. Pray God would bring the rest of the volunteers and at least 40 kids!

Through the Spring and Summer months, our team plans several “farm” trips to a picturesque valley at the base of Mt. Adams. Each time, we invite several international families. Our team almost always have some amazing conversations. Pray that we will be ready to use each opportunity God gives us this summer, and that lives will be changed.